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Fighting Wildfires with Big Data | Planetizen: The Urban Planning …

WIFIRE, a real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction, and visualization technology, combines satellite and remote sensor data to forecast the potential spread of wildfires.As InformationWeek reports, a team of researchers, technologists, and firefighters from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Maryland, with support from the National Science Foundation, have come together to create a far-reaching simulation, visualization, and […]

August 13, 2014 ByPlanetizen diego, elena-malykhina, forecast-the-potential, maryland, national, national-science, potential, science, understand-the-patterns, university, wifire Comments Off read more

How Big Data Is Helping Snuff Out California's Wildfire Epidemic

California is currently in the grips of a major drought, one of the worst of this generation. The region’s lack of precipitation has not only hindered California’s agricultural industry, it’s also turned our forests into tinder. But researchers at the University of California San Diego have a potential solution: just wire up all the trees to the Internet of Things.Wildfires […]

August 7, 2014 ByAndrew Tarantola california, cloud, county, hurricane, maryland, national, network, private, server, university, wifire Comments Off read more